As darkness threatens to engulf all life, the universe cries out for a champion with a pure heart. But they'll have to settle for schoolgirl June Summer.
With the help of her friends and her mentor, a winged bunny, June will battle monsters, struggle to maintain a normal school life, and occasionally watch television. Hey, even heroines need a little downtime.
-A Magical Girl Parody. Updates Wednesdays!

User's Comments:

Not at all! It focuses attention on the awesomeness that is Cordelia and Leopold. Especially panel 3. The swirls and glowy bits work great in panel 1, and those shadows are awesome in 3.
Overall, this is one of your most powerful pages ever. Great job.

@GroovyKinda: Wow, really? I thought it was kind of lacking because of the huge emptiness in the backgrounds. I still don't know how to fill up my empty voids, but if grey swirls work, maybe I can try playing with more variations on that.

@NitztheBloody: Thank you! I think this sort of thing would probably stand out even more if I used full color more often, but the plot has my hands tied on that end for now. I have to work with what I've got.

@melaredblu: To tell you the truth, I didn't even notice the swirls in the first panel.
Trust the empty space. You're using it to isolate the characters wonderfully. If you make the empty space too interesting, it takes away from the real focus.
And I really envy how you got that expression on Leopold. I've tried to draw him again and that is a really difficult look to pull off. Those darn buck teeth really get in the way.
This whole page showcases how far you've come artistically. There's a lot of improvement in your artwork that's a joy to see.

Yup, I think the void is really well made. As soon as it doesn't work, it becomes the focal point of the image, and it isn't here. It remains nicely in the background, and does the job of illustrating nothingness.

@schlissel: Tell me about it. Futurama did a great job with a black void in their time travel episode, but they had the advantage of animation, zooming out from the time machine at slowly increasing acceleration to emphasize how vast it was. Unfortunately, I have to rely on other tricks.